![]() 900, such as the Tagalog city-state of Tondo. The inscription documents the existence and names of several surrounding states as of A.D. ![]() After it was found, the text was first translated in 1991 by Antoon Postma, a Dutch anthropologist and Hanunó'o script researcher. The inscription was mainly written in Old Malay using the Early Kawi script with a number of technical Sanskrit words and Old Javanese or Old Tagalog honorifics. The plate was found in 1989 by a labourer near the mouth of the Lumbang River in Wawa, Lumban, Laguna in the Philippines. It is the earliest known calendar-dated document found within the Philippine Islands. The Laguna copperplate inscription ( Tagalog: Inskripsyon sa binatbat na tanso ng Laguna, literal translation: Inscription on flattened copper of Laguna) is an official acquittance inscribed onto a copper plate in the Shaka year 822 (Gregorian A.D. Mainly Old Malay with some Sanskrit & Old Javanese and/or Old Tagalog ![]() The inscription displayed at the National Museum of Anthropology in Manila ![]()
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